Well, not maybe for the first season. When I say that I speak about the whole serie which includes 3 seasons and 2 movies.
Soukyuu no Fafner begins with a classic mecha-anime guideline -that looks a lot like Evangelion-, with pretty poor art quality in general, the animation is the bare necessities, the main caracters are rather basics and the story takes quite some time to become enjoyable. In the first half of Soukyuu I can only concratulate the precision of the shots and the timing, a very good 3D (used only for a few things but still remains well integrated), and the OSTs.
If you begin to watch Soukyuu no Fafner, I beg you to watch end get through the first 10 episodes. The serious shit begin in the second half of the season. Every character begin to evolve in their own way, you begin to understand some scenes that happened before you coudn't understand yet, and the story gets away from it's Evangelion-like synopsis to become something unique.
Fafner is a combination of intense feelings, an excellent story, excellent OSTs, excellent characters developpement, excellent shots, and an incredible amount of details you cannot see in the first viewing.
The last thing I have to say is that the first season leaves quite a lot of questions not anwsered that why I am not only recommanding the first season, but the entire series.
Thanks for reading. I hope I succeeded to make you want to see one of my favourites anime
English is not my native language so excuse me if I made some mistakes ^^
